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My UK friend Lesley was making a travel book for her friend Matt (Matt, maps, atlas... so clever, that Lesley!) and needed a cover. Her design instructions were...

He really likes modernism so I was thinking the Bauhaus one for the font/background design but I'd really like to feature earth. I liked the circle with the lines I thought it might be interesting to capture light and dark. I quite like the line design I thought that would be a good pattern for the earth?

And I liked the little plane detail in the black and white one (with the giraffe) I was thinking it would be a nice to have a little plane going around the world. Overall I was thinking a more vibrant colour palette. I've settled on 'Matlas' for the title and the dimensions will be 29x29 cm for a square book.

We merged ideas from the prelims I sent her:

(I actually did that project a year ago and was waiting for an image of the final product. And then forgot. The perils of waiting! Also, this is why my children don't understand my work. And why I had no examples on hand to take when I went to talk to high schoolers interested in graphic design. There are so many files I send where I never see the resulting product.)

To bookend with a more recent project, my doctor has recorded an album of romantic piano songs and needed layouts for the cd insert. She knew just what she wanted, so all I needed to do was format it for her. There was a font she had in mind and I didn't have the name or a copy of it, so while I waited to find out what it was, I dummied something up.

Then when I made changes and corrections, I changed it to her preferred font (but we kept the scripty one for the title):

The bulk of my freelance design work is paginating publications and making marketing materials, but every once in awhile there's a stand-alone project like this. I wonder what other projects 2018 will bring!